Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
| Search for | Example | Results |
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
| Search for | Operator | Example |
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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- Queries
- Simple query expressions
- Complex query expressions
- Create a query using not in statements
- Create a query using an or statement or an and statement
- Use like queries to search for a string of characters
- Create a query using an or statement or an and statement
- Create a query using array fields
- Create a query using more than one field
- Perform IR Expert queries
- Use the equal to relational operator
- Use the greater than relational operator
- Use the less than relational operator
- Use the like relational operator
- Use the not symbol with logical or relational operators
- Use the starts with relational operator
- Create a query using a simple query expression
- Create a query using isin in statements
- Use the index function in a query
- Use the lng function in a query
- Use the tod function in a greater than or less than query
- Retrieving records by using the record list method
- Retrieving records by using the Query window method
- Stored queries
- Cross-table join query improvements
Use the lng function in a query
Applies to User Roles:
System Administrator
Example: Retrieve operator records where the length of the operator name is longer than five (5) characters.
In this example, we use the lng function to specify the length of character strings in the operator.qbe form and then performs an Advanced Search for records matching that criteria.
To use the lng function in a query:
- Click Tailoring > Database Manager.
- Type
=operatorin the Form field, and then click Search. - On the Operator Record form, open the More Actions menu.
- Select Expert Search.
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In the Query field, type
lng(name)>5, and then click Search.Note: This lng query is the same as typing
name like ‘??????*” - Click any record in the list of returned records to view the details.
Related topics
Record retrieval
Relational operators
The Database Manager utility
Using functions in a query
More Actions menu
Use the index function in a query
Use the lng function in a query
Use the tod function in a greater than or less than query
